COM3323 THE INFORMATION AGE
McDaniel College Department of Communication
Richard W. Dillman (rdillman@ticopa.com)
Contents . Calendar . Additional Sources . Assignments and Grading . Discussion Board
ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION
The following is not an exhuastive list of sources. Instead it is intended to provide you with some examples of the kinds of texts that you will need to reference in your outside reading for this course.
WEBSITES
- Information: Wikipedia
- Information Age: People, Information & Technology: An Exhibition at the National Museum of American History: photos and text
- School of Information at University of Michigan
- How Much Information is Created Each Year? academic research project, 2003
- Technology Review - print magazine site
- New York Times Technology - print magazine site
- salon.com online magazine
- the cluetrain manifesto
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication online journal
- whole systems
- Future Shock
- Chief Information Officer corporate information site
- C|NET
- Information Week business technology magazine
- CNN.com Technology
- Principia Cybernetica
- Virtual ethnography at Wikipedia
- Moving Toward Virtual Ethnography article
- Virtual Worlds research site
- The Virtual Worlds Project
- Four Ethical Issues of the Information Age / Management Information Systems Quarterly Volume 10, Number 1
JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
- Technology Review
- Communication theory : a journal of the International Communication Association
- Journal of Communication
- Journal of research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- The journal of interdisciplinary history
- Educational technology research and development
- Scientific American
- Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Journal of broadcasting & electronic media
- The Journal of popular film and television
BOOKS
- The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man / Herbert Marshall McLuhan
- War and Peace In the Global Village / Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
- Culture Is Our Business / Marshall Mcluhan
- Introduction to Behavioral Research on the Internet / Michael H. Birnbaum
- Internet Research Methods : A Practical Guide for the Social and Behavioural Sciences (New Technologies for Social Research) / Claire Hewson, Peter Yule, Dianna Laurent, Carl Vogel
- Society Online / edited by Howard and Jones
- Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture / Taylor
- Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space / Markham
- Virtual Ethnography / Hine
- Everything is Miscellaneous / Weinberger
- The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society / Norbert Wiener
- Future Shock / Alvin Toffler
- Taming the Beast: Choice & Control in the Electronic Jungle / Jason Ohler
- Then What? A Funquiry into the Nature of Technology, Human Transformation and Marshall McLuhan / Jason Ohler
- The Technological Conscience: Survival and Dignity in an Age of Expertise / Manfred Stanley
- Bandwagon effects in high-technology industries / Jeffrey H. Rohlfs
- Being digital / Nicholas Negroponte
- The technological fix : how people use technology to create and solve problems / edited by Lisa Rosner
- Granny @ work : aging and new technology on the job in America / Karen E. Riggs
- Silicon Alley : the rise and fall of a new media district / Michael Indergaard
- Encyclopedia of physical science and technology / Robert A. Meyers [editor]
- Digital economics : how information technology has transformed business thinking / Richard B. McKenzie
- Society, ethics, and technology / Morton Winston, Ralph Edelbach [editors]
- The science and ethics of engineering the human germ line : Mendel's maze / Jon W. Gordon
- The new financial order : risk in the 21st century / Robert J. Shiller
- From digital divide to digital opportunity / Appu Kuttan and Laurence Peters
- Smart mobs : the next social revolution / Howard Rheingold
- Down and out in Silicon Valley : the high cost of the high-tech dream / Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
- McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology : an international reference work in twenty volumes including an index
- Essential McLuhan / Marshall McLuhan, et al
- The Medium is the Massage / Marshall McLuhan
- Synthetic Worlds: the Business and Culture of Online Games / Edward Castronova
- Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet / Sherry Turkle
- The Second Self : Computers and the Human Spirit / Sherry Turkle
- Internet Communication and Qualitative Research : A Handbook for Researching Online (New Technologies for Social Research series) / Chris Mann, Fiona Stewart
- Doing Internet Research : Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net / Steve Jones
- Designing Virtual Worlds / Richard Bartle
- Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games / Austin Grossman (Editor)
- First Person : New Media as Story, Performance, and Game / Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan (Editors)
- Society Online: The Internet in Context / Philip Howard and Steve Jones (Editors)
- How We Became Post Human: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics / N. Katherine Hailes